few_shots: Example:
Problem/activity:
Problem 1
Solve using the standard algorithm. If you get stuck, use an area model and/or the partial products algorithm to help. Then assess the reasonableness of your answer.
a.
$$5,803\times46$$
b.
$$63\times2,116$$
Problem 2
Dunkin' introduced a croissant doughnut in 2014. In the first three months of its debut, they sold 7,870 dozen of them per day. How many croissant doughnuts were sold in the first three months?


Standard options: 
A. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to hundredths, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.
B. Find whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.
C. Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.


Thought: This set of problems involves multi-digit whole numbers because the numbers in each problem are four and two digit integers, and the mathematical calculations involved in both problems focus on multiplication. The first problem explicitly asks the student to solve its subproblems using the standard algorithm.
Answer: C

Now, assign the following problem or activity to one or more relevant standards it aligns with.
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options: Apply the properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions. For example, apply the distributive property to the expression 3 (2 + x) to produce the equivalent expression 6 + 3x; apply the distributive property to the expression 24x + 18y to produce the equivalent expression 6 (4x + 3y); apply properties of operations to y + y + y to produce the equivalent expression 3y.

Identify when two expressions are equivalent (i.e., when the two expressions name the same number regardless of which value is substituted into them). For example, the expressions y + y + y and 3y are equivalent because they name the same number regardless of which number y stands for.

Write, read, and evaluate expressions in which letters stand for numbers.

Write and evaluate numerical expressions involving whole-number exponents.
problem_activity: Activity
The purpose of this activity is to give students an opportunity to practice checking whether a particular value is a solution to an equation, and to recall properties of operations and equality that preserve the solution set of an equation.
This will be useful when students consider when and why equations have the same solution in the associated Algebra 1 lesson.
Monitor for students who:
check the value of
\(x\)
in only one expression and reason about the second expression
identify properties by name such as commutative, distributive, and associative
identify properties informally such as “changing the order doesn’t matter” or “you can add first and then multiply or multiply first and then add” or “you can multiply three or more terms in any order” or “you can add the same thing to each side”
manipulate the expressions
graph one or both expressions
Making graphing technology available gives students an opportunity to choose appropriate tools strategically.
Student Facing
For each pair of equations, decide whether the given value of
\(x\)
is a solution to one or both equations:
Is
\(x = 2\)
a solution to:
\(x(2 + 3) = 10\)
\(2x + 3x = 10\)
Is
\(x = 3\)
a solution to:
\(x - 4 = 1\)
\(4 - x = 1\)
Is
\(x = \text{-}2\)
a solution to:
\(7x = \text{-}14\)
\(x \boldcdot 14 = \text{-}28\)
Is
\(x = \text{-}1\)
a solution to:
\(x + 3 = 2\)
\(3 + x = 2\)
Is
\(x = \text{-5}\)
a solution to:
\(3 - x = 8\)
\(5 - x = 10\)
Is
\(x = (8 + 1)+3\)
a solution to:
\(\frac{12}{2} = \frac12(x)\)
\(18 = 2x\)
Is
\(x = 2\)
a solution to:
\(\frac{12}{x} = 6\)
\(6x = 12\)
Is
\(x = \frac{10}{3}\)
a solution to:
\(\text{-}1 + 3x = 9\)
\(9 = 3x - 1\)
Is
\(x = \frac12\)
a solution to:
\(5(x + 1) = \frac{15}{2}\)
\(5x + 1 = \frac{15}{2}\)
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Activity Synthesis
Ask students to talk to their neighbor about some things they can look for, to see if two equations are likely to have the same solution or different solutions. If needed, draw students’ attention to which equations had the same solution and which had different solutions, perhaps by displaying them for all to see, grouped by whether the equations were equivalent or not.
Call on students to share their thinking and make an informal list displayed for all to see. It’s fine if students do not name all possible properties, or only describe them informally. They will have more opportunities to encounter them formally in their Algebra 1 course.
Remind students that
equivalent
equations have the same solution set. Use the language of
equivalent
interchangeably with “have the same solution,” and monitor for students to pick up on this vocabulary.


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